Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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Now this is a curious packaging bug! mathstodon.xyz/@bremner/114722

I blogged a little bit about my playing around in Racket on my MNT Pocket Reform, which is aarch64 based. I mentioned that Racket was way too slow, so I had switched to Guile.

It turns out the Debian packaging for Racket was compiling x86_64 for all platforms, and so Racket on Debian on ARM was being effectively *emulated* due to a packaging bug!

I guess I'm glad my little blogpost uncovered that!

David Bremner (@bremner@mathstodon.xyz)

@humberto@mastodon.online @cwebber@social.coop Well that's embarrassing. The file /etc/racket/config.rktd is actually architecture dependent, but we've been shipping the amd64 version on all architectures in the package racket-common. I'll have to figure out the right long term fix, but for now a search and replace of x86_64 with aarch64 (two places) should fix it. If not, please follow up on the Debian bug, or here.

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